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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

  • -- William Strunk, Jr. 小威廉·斯特伦克

做出明确的断言。避免使用平淡、无趣、犹豫、不置可否的语言。

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

在大多数诗歌中，自然物只是一种修辞技巧，但在华兹华斯看来，自然物中所蕴含的生命意义，几乎就是他所认为的字面上的事实。

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I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

我太蠢了。无神论者不能支持他们认为上帝不存在的主张。我所能做的最愚蠢的事就是拒绝接受他的事实。

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At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

在你这个年纪，血液里的旺盛时期是驯服的，是谦卑的。

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